Is there any solid proof he is being considered?

though.

looked further. Though Guardian will never like Kelly he will receive bipartisan if not unanimous support. I would also be suspect of any recommendation made by the Guardian for the head of DHS.

indeed.

leftist commie pinko soft on crime, communism, and terra and weak on national defense libral-headed wussie heading up DHS.

CNN - Homeland security nominee withdraws

the Guardian doesn't. That's not going to catch my hair on fire.
[link:http://thinkprogress.org/security/2012/03/13/443264/ny-voters-nypd-treats-muslims-fairly/?mobile=nc|

Here's the cynical/political view of what could happen with Ray Kelley

I hope Ray Kelly will not be appointed but as this article mentions Obama got pressure about appointing Brennan for CIA in his first term and waited until his second to push him through. The article doesn't mention it, but Penny Pritzger for Commerce was his pick First Term but the Left pressured him...and he waited until Second Term where she sailed through just like Brennan did. This is an interesting counterpoint to your article. I hate to think that he would put Ray Kelly in for DHS.. but, if it suits him politically, he probably will go with it for the reasons this article states.

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What's the Upside for Obama in a Ray Kelly DHS Nomination?

Obama's comments, while laudatory, do seem to have an air of what Gothamist calls "banal praise to smooth things over." Gothamist—and most other critiques of a Kelly appointment—note that the president's administration has even recently critiqued Kelly's police force. In June, Attorney General Eric Holder indicated that the Department of Justice would be willing to appoint a monitor to oversee any changes that might be mandated after the conclusion of the stop-and-frisk civil suit.

The bigger question is why Obama would nominate Kelly in the first place. When Obama offered Janet Napolitano, the outgoing DHS head who will become president of the University of California system, the message was clear: DHS will be tough on border security. Napolitano had been governor of Arizona, giving her credibility on the issue. That was in 2008, when border security was a more important political issue. What message does a Kelly pick send?

One of the first examinations of that issue came from John Avlon at the Daily Beast. His argument came down to the idea that appointing Kelly would help Democrats maintain an air of toughness on security issues—hardly an unimpeachable suggestion.

Avlon also suggests that Kelly brings a sense of authority on issues of terrorism. If so, it's not clear how he earned it. Under Kelly, the NYPD's track record of terror investigations has earned some strong criticism. The department initiated its own aggressive, multi-state undercover operations in the wake of 9/11, which a subsequent report determined had resulted in precisely zero leads. Kelly does have experience working with federal agents on terrorism, it's true—including the CIA, which embedded off-duty agents with the force a decade ago.

Flirting with a Kelly nomination right now may pay some indirect benefits for the president. It serves as a tacit response to criticism of the Department of Justice's investigation of the Trayvon Martin shooting. Kelly would also be one of the few white males in Obama's second-term Cabinet.

Obama's been in a similar position with his ostensible allies on the left before. In 2008, he considered nominating John Brennan to run the CIA. In the wake of massive criticism of the pick from liberals angry about the nominee's embrace of Bush-era torture programs, Brennan withdrew. The liberals won.

For a while. Earlier this year, at the beginning of his second term, Obama nominated Brennan for the same position. The main opposition came from Rand Paul, Republican senator from Kentucky. Brennan was approved 63-34.

More at:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/07/whats-upside-obama-ray-kelly-dhs-nomination/67376/

here on DU ...and I thought it might have meant that Obama was not going to succeed in her appointment the Second Time and that those who work for OFA here were signaling that we who were alarmed about Pritzger were just foolish...

BUT...Pritzger is now SOC and I wonder if like Brennan that Obama tried the First Time to get through like Pritzger and then was confirmed overwhelmingly the Second Time around that...the lack of interest in posts about Ray Kelly are ANOTHER appointment that will Sail Through and that OFA is so comfortable with it that they don't even bother to acknowledge that he could or will be sailing through Congress.

Yet we are told that Repugs Oppose Obama.

Anyway...a KICK to inform people about "Racial Profile Ray Kelly" taking over for Napolitano.

Don't say we Lefty Dems didn't warn ya! You don't like the Trayvon Martin verdict....Then WAIT until RAY KELLY HEADS DHS and see what happens.

Them, and just about every non-white young male in NYC.